Meat and rice-filled buns
Meat and rice-filled buns are fried bread buns with ground beef and cooked rice stuffing
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm milk
- 2 ¼ teaspoon active dry yeast
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 cups all purpose flour
Filling
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 small onion (chopped)
- 300 g minced beef
- 1-2 cloves garlic (minced)
- ¼ teaspoon curry
- ¼ teaspoon thyme
- 1 seasoning cube
- 1 ½ cup cooked rice
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix warm milk with yeast and leave to stand for 10 mins (It should become frothy).
- Mix in sugar, salt, egg and melted butter.
- Add flour and beat and knead briefly.
- Cover and proof for one hour.
- Meanwhile, prepare the filling.
- Pour oil into a frying pan and place over medium heat.
- When hot, add onions and fry until soft.
- Add minced beef, garlic, curry and thyme. Fry until cooked well.
- Add seasoning cube and rice, stir and taste for salt. keep frying awhile then set aside to cool.
- Beat dough down and cut into 8-10 balls.
- Place each ball on a lightly floured surface and roll out into a circle.
- Place a heaped tablespoon full of the filling in the centre of the dough.
- Fold to cover. Roll into a dough ball.
- Leave to rise in a warm place, covered with a kitchen napkin, for 15-20 minutes.
- Place a pot of oil for deep frying over medium-high heat.
- When hot, fry buns seam-side down, 90 secs per side.
- Control heat so dough fries through.
- Drain onto kitchen napkin and serve.
Notes
- Serve with Cashew fruit drink, Kunun Aya Deluxe (Sugarcane-Tigernut drink), Carrot Orange juice and Beetroot juice Mocktail.
- You can also serve your filled buns with a light soup. e.g Mushroom pepper soup.
- If you get a raw dough centre after frying your buns, place it on a lined baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 5 mins.
- Meat and Rice filled Buns can also be baked.